Los Angeles Post Kobe Bryant
Los Angeles post Kobe Bryant
Discuss the vibe in LA post Kobe. Tana has unique perspective as a Bball player/fan who lives in LA but didn’t grow up there
Where were you when you heard the news? (This seems like an event people will remember forever “where they were”.)
Reasons for this: partially Kobe’s massive fame, partially we saw him with Gigi on TV a lot lately, partially how vibrant/active his life was at the moment of his death. Partially cuz it all happened/ended in an instant.
Rewind: what were your feelings on Kobe prior to moving to West Coast/ LA?
Assuming those feelings evolved, what stands out to you since you’ve been on the West Coast/LA?
What have you seen in terms of memorials/murals/tributes/vigils around the city that stick out or are poignant?
Has any other death in LA had this type of impact on the city since you’ve been there?
Only person even close off the top of my head (in terms of suddenness) actor Paul Walker from Fast & Furious - but it’s not even close. [This doesn’t include homicides, suicides or overdoses - the True accidental nature of this death really makes people take a step back]
Kobe was “our age” and that makes you take stock in life being so fragile. And then the kids and other passengers and pilot news came out and that takes it from sobering to senseless.
The other victims - have people done an appropriate job of remembering them? It’s such a had circumstance to appropriately do that.
Anything else you want to discuss on this?
Places listening - Paris France and Hertford UK are the top 2 cities this week.
France, USA, UK, Australia, Spain, Sweden, Canada, Austria, Latvia, Italy and New Zealand